Title :
Soliton self-frequency shift accelerated by femtosecond soliton interaction
Author :
Kurokawa, Kaneyuki ; Kubota, Hajime ; Nakazawa, Masataka
Author_Institution :
R&D Centre, NTT Telecommun. Field Syst., Ibaraki, Japan
Abstract :
Nonlinear interaction between femtosecond solitons has been investigated in a distributed erbium-doped fibre amplifier (DEDFA). It is shown that when the input femtosecond soliton pair is in phase, the soliton self-frequency shift is greatly accelerated by soliton interaction.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical communication; optical solitons; distributed Er doped fibre amplifier; femtosecond soliton interaction; input femtosecond soliton pair; nonlinear interaction; soliton self-frequency shift; soliton transmission;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19921315
